by Jim Heath | Nov 19, 2021 | Headlines
Speaker Nancy Pelosi smiled as the House of Representatives passed President Biden’s Build Back Better bill today, on a partisan vote of 220 to 213. The bill includes universal pre-K, expanded Medicare access to hearing aids, four weeks of paid family and...
by Jim Heath | May 21, 2021 | GOP, Headlines
Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican who has announced his intention to challenge Rep. Liz Cheney (R) for her House seat, acknowledged today that he had impregnated a 14-year-old and had a relationship with her when he was 18, comparing the teen intimacy...
by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | Congress, GOP, Headlines, QAnon
Democrats, and 11 Republicans, voted tonight to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from both her committee assignments for espousing QAnon conspiracies before being elected to Congress – including supporting calls online for Nancy Pelosi’s execution. The 230-199 vote...
by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | Headlines, Impeachment, Trump
The House today asked Donald Trump to testify under oath next week as part of the former president’s second impeachment trial in the Senate. In a letter to Trump, the House’s lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Trump’s testimony was necessary...
by Jim Heath | Jan 28, 2021 | 2022, GOP, Headlines
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who gained national attention as one of former President Trump’s most ardent defenders during his first impeachment, said today he will not run for retiring Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-Ohio) seat in 2022. Jordan “is solely focused on...